At the start of the outsourcing boom I remember having discussions with the board about outsourcing our IT and, basically, making myself redundant. All the senior managers saw is a reduced spend for IT on the books and in exactly the same way IT brought about cost savings in finance, warehousing, etc. they seen [...]
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If this research pans out then we can all look forward to having our brains scanned on a regular basis. All to prevent terrorism of course. On the plus side of course everyone will trigger this alarm as showing pictures of a city which they have associations with or a bomb should elicit strong [...] Well it seems that Mexico is now turning into more of a surveillance state than the US. At least now I understand why so many of them are risking death to escape to the US. I used to believe it was because there was a better standard of living in the US. Now it [...] It seems the internet has yet to make its most significant contribution to our lives. Screwing up our reputations. Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt has suggested that everyone will change their name as a rite of passage because of what they have done on line on Facebook and tweets etc. so they can leave their [...] Looks like the Iranian people are being helped to access the Internet by the development of a new tool called Haystack. Haystack works by hiding the real destination by encrypting the traffic between the client and Haystacks servers. This stops the Iranian government monitoring the clients browsing habits and then using the recorded sites [...] Scientists seem to be on the brink of developing a vaccine to immunize us against stress. A vaccine that will help us relax. Sounds great. For all those out there that suffer from stress this appears to be a godsend. A cure for everyday living that would help them have a productive and stress [...] With the power to monitor what anyone looks at on the web comes to ability to understand how you think. What your interests are and how active you are in the pursuit of those interests. It doesn’t really matter if your system is encrypted or if you delete your cache and web history every [...] With the introduction of miniature recording equipment that can record for later viewing almost anything and thus show third parties, such as a court, exactly what happened rather than taking the word of someone, usually someone with something to hide, we actually were able to prove and disprove very quickly what the truth was. [...] With the instructions from Obama that NASA’s tasking changes from space to making muslims, who have been stagnant for a millenia, feel good about their contribution to science NASA’s death knell has sounded. So NASA with all its expertese in science, space and rocketry is going to be arranging a party, or something, for [...] |
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Who would have thunk it?
It seems our paranoia about government watching our every move online is going to be greatly enhanced by our move to the cloud.
That’s why my feet are staying firmly on the ground and I suggest you do to until we have a way around these [...]